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Native American Dancing and the Federal Dance Ban

Fall 2020

Image of the 2018 Calgary Canada Day Parade, JMacPherson from Calgary, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Original music by Palina Buchanan, Fall 2020

Native Americans continued to dance after the U.S. government banned religious dancing, changing traditions over time and utilizing dance as a multidimensional tool.

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